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I wasn't good enough at encouraging people to be kinder, and removing people who refuse to be kind. Encouraging people is hard, and removing people creates conflict, and I hate conflict... so that's why I wasn't better at it.

I was a very, very sensitive teen. The atmosphere of this forum as it is now, if it had existed in 1996, would probably have upset me far more than it would have helped.

I can handle quite a lot of negativity and even abuse now, but that isn't the point. I want to help people. I want to help the people who need it the most, and I want to help people like the 1996 version of me.

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So apparently at a school in California, there's a photo in the yearbook that (way in the background mind you) captures two teens making out. Called child porn because his hand was up her shirt or something; now all the students face felony charges if they don't turn their yearbooks in, like it was their fault in the first place.

.Manicrose. Wrote:So apparently at a school in California, there's a photo in the yearbook that (way in the background mind you) captures two teens making out. Called child porn because his hand was up her shirt or something; now all the students face felony charges if they don't turn their yearbooks in, like it was their fault in the first place.

I have a question: What if you accidentally lost your yearbook?

I have a question... why do prosecutors and many adults INSIST on putting consensual teen sex in the same category as a 50 year old man raping a 5 year old?

BaronVonStrangle Wrote:On reading the title I thought there was actual child porn in the Yearbook

LOLTHIS.

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly." - Albert Einstein

"Within a few years a simple and inexpensive device, readily carried about, will enable one to receive on land or sea the principal news, to hear a speech, a lecture, a song or play of a musical instrument, conveyed from any other region of the globe." - Nikola Tesla

Anyways, I too would like to know the answer to this question asked by Unschool.-Why do prosecutors and many adults INSIST on putting consensual teen sex in the same category as a 50 year old man raping a 5 year old?-

Because society is flawed.
Felony charges? Yeah, fucking stupid. People just take the law as it is, without thinking by themselves... I believe that's been repeated over and over again on this forum. I just wonder, when did this whole child porn craze begin? This band, The Scorpions, used an album cover with a nude girl who was 10 years old, on their album "The Virgin Killer". Can't post links because I'm a newfag. It's on Wikipedia, look it up.
It was censored and shit back then IN SOME COUNTRIES, but I guess these days people would go to jail for this shit and a load of drama and shitstorms would ensue.
I guess it has something to do with child porn on the internet

I'm not saying it's fine for 50 year olds to rape 5 year olds, or for there to be child porn that abuses of children/teenagers, or anyone for that matter, is right. It's just that it's overly exaggerated these days and anything sexual that involves people slightly under 18 is ZOMG TEH WRONGS BECAUSE DA LAW SAYS UNDER 18 IS WRAANG

Wow. Just...wow. Do they have people who like go through every thing involving kids looking for this shit? OH MY GOD NO NO NO NO NO THEY ARE UNDER 18, THEY CAN'T MAKE DECISIONS REGARDING THEIR OWN LIFE YET!!!!! CHILD PR0NZZZ!!!!

"Ask them no more questions, never hear them lying"

People say the problem with me is I have psychotic tendencies and care not about other human beings I don't like and or know. So?

Phrozen_Soul Wrote:Wow. Just...wow. Do they have people who like go through every thing involving kids looking for this shit? OH MY GOD NO NO NO NO NO THEY ARE UNDER 18, THEY CAN'T MAKE DECISIONS REGARDING THEIR OWN LIFE YET!!!!! CHILD PR0NZZZ!!!!

Huh... they should make accounts on stickam... their heads will explode.

Yeah, why the fuck would that be considered the least bit inappropriate for school?

inb4 sauce plz

Because you know someone's going to demand it. Maybe TDF.

Not really. Also, lol because you can just right click > view image info and it gives the host site.

I would be absolutely fine with having this image in my yearbook. I would, in fact, maybe actually BUY one in that case.

Just saying.

BRITISH MEMBER

BaronVonStrangle Wrote:If I hear a plumber/construction worker/carpenter/whatever say "I'm a hard worker" and the make-up addled plastic bitch replies with "I'll bet that's not the only thing that's hard" ONE MORE TIME

I basically put something like "I very much [SYNOMN OF ENJOYED] my time at [SCHOOLNAME INSERT]. It was very [SYNOMN OF EDUCATIONAL] and [SYNOMN OF FUN] to attend various lessons, all taught by [SYNOMN OF HARDWORKING] and [SYNOMN OF CARING] teachers. Blah blah blah fucking blah

If you don't get it imagine that I did write that everyone sucked inordinate amounts of dick but it was censored, a la GLORIOUS REPUBLIC OF RED CHINA.

(06-18-2011 06:19 AM).Manicrose. Wrote: So apparently at a school in California, there's a photo in the yearbook that (way in the background mind you) captures two teens making out. Called child porn because his hand was up her shirt or something; now all the students face felony charges if they don't turn their yearbooks in, like it was their fault in the first place.

I have a question: What if you accidentally lost your yearbook?

Shouldn't the school be held responsible though? I would've sued in that case.